Another new experience: pruning the olive trees for the first time
All about the garden
Horta do Baldio counts almost 6 acres of land. Most of it is the territory of sheep and olive trees, but there is more. Step by step we hope to create a fertile vegetable garden and a colourful succulent garden. Perhaps even grow some flowers? But first we have to discover everything that already grows here. This is where we will keep track of our discoveries.
Pruning grapevines we didn’t know we had
This task was actually not on our to do list, but now we know it should be
Christmas in the sun
A picture gallery of Christmas time in our little paradise
Our very first olive oil
Almost two months after the harvest, we received our delicious olive oil
Bring on the fava beans
Taking our first steps in reviving the old vegetable garden
Asparagus Albus
What a pleasure to discover food on our land we had never heard of or seen before.
Our first olive harvest
When two city people from northern Europe try to harvest olives in Portugal
Belladonna Lilly
The beautiful pink flowers of this wild amaryllis welcomed us at our new house